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MICK Jagger and Keith Richards live in the lap of luxury now, but in the early days of the Rolling Stones, the cold-water flat they lived in was so squalid they rarely bathed. In her new book, “Brian Jones – Straight From the Heart,” about the famed rock band’s late founder, Gloria Shepherd, writes that Mick and Keith “preferred to put up with the stench from their own bodies.” She quotes Jones as recalling, “Mick had this habit of lifting his arms above his head and sniffing his armpits – and he’d say, ‘Hmmm, manly!’ “